Chapter 14 : Forgotten Girl
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📖 Chapter 14: Forgotten Girl
Part 1: Beneath the Ashes
I went alone.
No one could hear me.
No one would stop me.
The old nursery stood on the far edge of Crescent lands, boarded up after the fire a decade ago. They said it was lightning. But I remembered no storm that night.
The building groaned as I entered.
Dust danced in the pale moonlight. Toys melted into corners. Cribs blackened by soot.
But there was something deeper.
Something calling.
I found it behind a shattered changing table—half-buried in ash.
A trapdoor.
Burned shut.
I pressed my hand to it—and it opened.
Stairs led down into darkness.
Each step groaned with memory.
I descended into the earth.
And into a past someone tried very hard to forget.
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📖 Chapter 14: Forgotten Girl
Part 2: The Scratched Name
The room below smelled of damp earth and secrets.
Shelves lined the stone walls—records, scrolls, medical files.
I moved by instinct.
Found a shelf labeled “Birth Year 0”—the year of the twins.
My fingers trembled as I pulled out a single blackened binder. Most of the writing had faded.
But on the last page, scrawled in blood-red ink:
> Twin Female – Status: Deceased
Name: ~~~SCRATCHED THROUGH~~~
I scratched gently with my nail. Under the thick ink, something shimmered.
One name.
Aurelia.
My breath caught.
Not Aurora. Not Lyra.
Aurelia.
“Who is she?” I whispered.
Then the air shifted.
And from the corner of the room… something moved.
A shadow curled up like a child in the corner. Pale hands. Hollow eyes.
She looked like me.
But not like me.
And she whispered:
“I’m what was left behind when you were chosen.”
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📖 Chapter 14: Forgotten Girl
Part 3: The Lost Twin
The girl—Aurelia—stood, joints cracking like old wood.
“You lived. I didn’t,” she said. “But that’s not the truth, is it?”
My voice caught. “What do you mean?”
“You were meant to die,” she said. “They chose you because your cry was stronger. They silenced me.”
I backed away. “No. You’re not real.”
“I am real. Just not alive.”
She stepped into the flickering light.
Same eyes. Same hair. Same face. Just colder. Hollow.
“They fed your life with mine,” she hissed. “Now I exist only in the cracks of memory. In the Grove. In the dark.”
My knees buckled.
She crouched beside me. “But Lyra opened the door.”
“She brought you back?” I gasped.
“She brought justice.”
Then her voice turned to ice:
“And now… she wants to trade again.”
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📖 Chapter 14: Forgotten Girl
Part 4: You Were Never Alone
I fled the basement, the echo of Aurelia’s voice chasing me.
Outside, the wind screamed through the trees.
The forest felt closer now.
Like it remembered me.
I collapsed against the nursery wall, heaving. The stars above seemed too quiet, too far away.
And then—Liam’s voice.
Faint. But clear.
“Mom?”
I whipped around.
He was standing in the grass, barefoot, in pajamas.
Looking right at me.
He saw me.
He saw me.
“I remembered you,” he whispered. “You sing off-key.”
Tears poured down my face. I ran to him, arms out.
He smiled, just a little.
And then—his eyes flashed silver.
His lips moved.
But it was Lyra’s voice that came out.
“She knows now. She’ll come for both of you.”
And just like that…
He collapsed.
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🕯 Teaser – Chapter 15: The Blood Memory
Aurelia is not done.
In Chapter 15, the pack discovers a ritual hidden in the bloodlines of the Alpha families—a rite that can either seal the soul of a child… or split it in two.
But to reclaim Liam, Aurora must spill her own blood.
And the cost may be the last tie to her former self.
Chapter 15: The Blood Memory
What do you give when you've already lost everything?
Everything else.
- Writer
